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Explores Henry James's revisions of `The Aspern Papers.' What the earliest alterations did to the text; What he did stylistically; A narrative in which the author tries to control his text and to direct his readers' responses to it; 1908 version; Other versions and his final presentation of `The Aspern Papers.'

Discusses the views of writer George Lippard on the topic of the working class society in the United States, and how these persons remain on the lower scale despite their contributions to the society. View that the chasm between rich and poor has widened in the 1990s; Reference to books `The Quaker City' and `The Monks of Monk Hall,' by Lippard; Detailed information on the issue.

Presents information on the book 'The Biglow Papers,' written by author James Russell Lowell. Several periodicals who paid tribute to Lowell; Sale of the book; Criticism of the book.

The article examines scholars' critical response to literary works by author Herman Melville. It explores Ruth Blair's introduction to Melville's use of biblical figures and allusions in "Typee," "Mardi," "Moby-Dick," "Omoo" and "Clarel." It discusses scholars' essays on confidence games in Melville's "Benito Cereno," and Jonathan Senchyne's discussion on how rag paper mediates social connections highlights Melville and Henry David Thoreau.

Comments on an article by author James Ahiakpor commenting on the view that Ralph Hawtrey's employment of general equilibrium analysis is a precursor of the multiplier argument that Richard Kahn and John Maynard Keynes founded on the principle of the marginal propensity to consume. Ahiakpor's contribution to the revisionist view of Keynesian economics; Relationship between Kahn and Keynes' multipliers.

Presents the prizes given by the American Comparative Literature Association for 2004. René Wellek Prize for works in the field of literary and cultural theory; Levin Prize for books that emphasize literary history or criticism as opposed to theory; A. Owen Aldridge Prize for graduate student essays selected from a competition; Charles Bernheimer Prize for dissertations in comparative literature.

Examines a previously unpublished letter from author Maria Edgeworth to Eliza Fletcher, wife of the Scottish advocate and reformer Archibald Fletcher and mother of sculptor Angus Fletcher. Transcript of the letter; Tone used by Edgeworth; Letter as a response to an inquiry from Fletcher concerning the possible existence of papers relevant to Humphry Davy.

The article discusses the temporalities of the novel and newspaper. It notes that Isaac Bickerstaff's criticism of journalists suggests their similarities with the novelists in "spinning out" the story line and in playing his so-called game of narrative pulse and sprawl. The author also suggests that the timing of printed news may have infused the workings of a novel, particularly in the case of "Tatler" and Laurence Stern's "Tristam Shandy."

The author offers views on an article by Elena Russo about the 1966 conference, Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man," held at John Hopkins University. The author focuses on one of the papers of the conference, "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences," as a major text of reference in the movement from structuralism to post-structuralism. The author believes the coming of theory rescued the study of literature at a time when it was threatened with irrelevance.

The article looks into the book "Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language," by Eva Hoffman and on her proposed immigrant rage felt by immigrants in the U.S. This rage coined by Hoffman concerns a "hygienic" immigrant identity, a model sustained by immigrants. In the book, Hoffman narrates about the unspoken expectations embedded in the American imagination of acceptable modes of being for immigrants. In this paper, the author wants to connect alienhood and immigrant rage and its impact on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

This article analyzes the book "Goethe's Correspondence with a Child," by Bettina Brentano-von Arnim. This paper argues that many of feminist commentators of Brentano-von Arnim have engaged in a rewriting of literary history with regard to her book "Goethe's Correspondence with a Child." In this article, the author used the neo-feminist approach in the study of the book to debunk the declaration of some that we have now entered a post-feminist era. Moreover, the author's own analysis of the book relies both on literary criticism by feminists such as Nancy K. Miller and Carolyn Heilbrun. She also based her analysis on the testimony of Honoré de Balzac and Milan Kundera, two witnesses who are quite hostile to feminist concerns.

The article replies to the criticism of author Ronald Hamowy about the anti-semitism practice of economist F.A. Hayek. In his concluding paragraph, Ronald Hamowy states that well-known economist Reder's comments on Hayek are an insult both to Hayek and to those many Jews, who worked closely with and under him and should be dismissed as the somewhat jaundiced views of a writer intent on finding malevolence where none exists. A major point of this paper is that, varying with time and place, hostility toward Jews in general could accompany great benevolence toward certain Jews in particular. It was not, and is not, suggested that the perceived benevolence toward individual Jews was feigned or insincere. Benevolence is one facet of a complex reaction common to many individuals of one social position to those sharing another. But frequently there has been another facet to this reaction, hostility. It is the changing relation of these two facets that is the primary concern of the author.

Focuses on Saul Kripke's paper `A Puzzle About Belief.' Why it has been suggested that Kripke's has a normative epistemic notion in mind; What Kripke's puzzle consist of; Examination of the method used in his paper; Belief that the puzzle and Kripke' use of it as a defense of Millianism involve an interesting strategy that has not been given the attention it deserves.

Presents a criticism of works of Dennis Tedlock with special reference to his paper on writer Quiché Maya. Lack of sufficient information provided by Tedlock regarding Maya in his paper; Insistence of the writer on the difficulty of beginning as an ordering device.

Presents an interpretation of the novel entitled `Little Dorrit,' by Charles Dickens. Use of forgery of synecdoche and of the wholeness of represented bodies as a technique in writing novels; Tension between fragmentation and unity in the novel; Significance of the link made by Dickens between fragmentation and forgery.

Reviews three papers about the present and future states of novel theory and criticism discussed in the Volume 18, Number 3, Spring 1985 issue of "Novel." Don Bialostosky's analysis of the dialogue between Wayne C. Booth and Mikhail Bakhtin; Bernard Duyfhuizen's effort to trace the postmodern fate of mimesis; Mark Spilka's attempt to trace the recent evolution of novel criticism.

The article demonstrates the resistance of economists John Stuart Mill and John Elliott Cairnes to a program devised by William Stanley Jevons to mathematically approach economic theory. One reason for sustained opposition to the marginalist approach was pointed by Mark Blaug and Henry Spiegel as the specific use of mathematics. Cairnes has made several criticisms to Jevon's book "Theory of Political Economy," including the need for the utility theory of value to be circular. Despite the criticism, Cairnes had expressed admiration for Jevon's work in logic and applied economics.

Analyzes Millicent Bell's paper 'Hawthorne's 'Fire-Worship': Interpretation and Source.' Analysis of views expressed by Bell in her paper; Criticism of the view of Bell that her thesis of Bell that her thesis of domestic fire is a 'half-conscious symbol of the old Puritan belief'; Ignorance of Bell of fire-imagery in other places in the book.

The article examines scholarly inquiry into literary works published in the Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Poland and Hungary from 2019 to 2020. Topics discussed include Ivana DragoŠ's examination of the link between author Royall Tyler's critique of Federalism and the status of Updike Underhill as a quixotic character in "The Algerine Captive," and Sergej Macura's analysis of author Ernest Hemingway's story through textual time references.

The article examines scholarly inquiry into works by American playwrights. Topics discussed include an increase in the focus on critical theory in the mid-2010s, the neo-expressionist vision that are common among contemporary playwrights, American drama surveyor Christopher Bigsby's approach to studying plays, the conventional thematic approach of Patrick Maley to his subject, and depiction of complexity and sophistication in plays, such as Emanuel Fried's "Elegy for Stanley Gorski."

The article examines scholars' critical response to literary works by novelists Edith Wharton and Willa Cather. Topics discussed include the scope and complexity offered by Wharton's and Cather's work to readers and scholars, Jennifer Haytock's exploration of the implications of the discovery of a holograph manuscript for Wharton's "The Children," and examination of Cather's relations to Ireland and Irishness by Robert Thacker and Willa Murphy.

The article examines scholarly inquiry into works by American poets from 1900 to the 1950s. Topics discussed include the inclusion of works by lesser-known poets in the volume "African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song," edited by Kevin Young and issued by the Library of America, and Ben Glaser's exploration of the resistance of New Critical writers to meter and paraphrase in his book "Modernism's Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetic."

The article examines scholarly works on early 19th-century American literature. Topics discussed include the use of mass media and class protest by writers to comment on race relations in the U.S., the use of religious agency and celebrity by women writers to make their literary voices heard, scholars' analysis of the influence of urban life on author Edgar Allan Poe, and scholars' criticism of works by African American writers, like Frederick Douglass.

The article examines scholarly inquiry into literary fiction in the U.S. from the 1980s to the present. It explores the shift in scholarly interest in noncanonical genres, like science fiction and young adult. Topics discussed include the focus of criticism on neoliberalism and the impact of capitalism on the quality of life, and Nancy J. Peterson's exploration of the commercial and critical popularity of the figures of the Native American Renaissance.

The article examines scholarly inquiry into literary fiction in the U.S. from the 1960s to the 1980s. Topics discussed include Douglas Mao's study on the relationship between labor and utopian political theory in the works of authors Ursula K. Le Guin and Samuel R. Delany, scholarly interest in the figure of the child in the early 2000s, and James B. Haile's exploration of the hypervisibility and invisibility of Black maleness in fiction.

The article examines scholars' critical response to literary works by authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. The common threads across scholarship of both authors include physical and mental health, comics, social inequities and the authors' historical legacies. Topics discussed include the important themes in Fitzgerald's novel "This Side of Paradise" examined by editor Philip McGowan, and a comparison of several versions of Hemingway's works.

The article examines scholars' critical response to literary works by author William Faulkner. Topics discussed include the difficulty of biographers in writing about the life of Faulkner, the resonance of the Civil War in Faulkner's writings examined by Michael Gorra, and an attempt by Michal Choiñski to define the rhetoric of Southerness in Faulkner's "Dry September."

The article examines scholars' critical response to literary works by authors Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Topics discussed include the documentation of creative writing about Pound in various genres found in the Ezra Pound Society's website, documentation of Eliot's correspondence with his love Emily Hale written between 1930 and 1957, and examination of the religious elements of Eliot's doctoral thesis on philosopher F. H. Bradley

The article examines scholarly inquiry into early American literature dating from 1800. Topics discussed include the hemispheric political contexts as showcased in Rodrigo Lazo's study of Spanish-language texts published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from the 1970s to the 1830s, the relationship between politics and religion in American literature explored by Abram C. Van Engen, and the language of violence and excess that characterizes William Bartram's book "Travels."

The article examines scholars' critical response to literary works by author Henry James. Topics discussed include Adrian Poole's survey of the composition of James' novel "The Princess Casamassima," the inspiration given by James to fiction writers as shown in their works with him as the protagonist, and essays on the consciousness of Asian perspective on Jamesian cultural value in the book "Jamesian Cultural Anxiety in the East and West: The Co-constitutive Nature of the Cosmopolitan Spirit."

The article examines scholars' critical response to literary works by author Mark Twain. Topics discussed include Leslie Diane Myrick's evaluation of unpublished letters by Twain dated between 1880 and 1908, a recount of a cross-country journey to retrace the places in the U.S. that played a significant role in Twain's life, and examination of the issues of teaching Twain's controversial novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."

The article examines scholars' critical response to literary works by poets Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Topics discussed include the global visions of the authors, the popular culture studies work in Dickinson scholarship, and the political science perspectives in Whitman scholarship. It explores Zachary Turpin and Matt Miller's Whitman's construction of his own genre, and Melanie Hubbard's contextualization of Dickinson in her time and place.

The article offers an analysis of "La CurÉE," a novel by French writer Èmile Zola. It observes that the novel is significant as the first literary censorship of the Third Republic of France and warns that readers need to do more than read the journalistic Zola and the novelistic Zola side by side. The article also argues that Zola's novel had managed to link the Bonapartists ghosts to those of the Commune.

The author comments on an article by Elena Russo about the 1966 symposium, Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man, held at the John Hopkins University. The author admires the way Russo demonstrates that scientific criticism under attack during the event, but he claims there are a few minor areas of discord between them. For instance, the author believes that homology is not really an unreliable concept. Features of a book on languages of criticism and its context are discussed.

The author traces the increasing engagement of English professor Wayne C. Booth with feminism and feminist criticism in his career and its effect on her own journey from formalism. The professor recommends the art of self-defense for women in an essay. He raised the issue of the freedom of a person in interpreting and criticizing a work of art. In his book "The Company We Keep," Booth provided modifications to his beliefs that reflected what he learned about feminist criticism.

The article assesses the "larger picture," as the author calls it, that gave the agenda of the Philadelphia conference its most critical and provocative formulation. The paper outlines some crucial issues that the fierce discussions of the recent decade have put into sharper focus. The author holds up the image of Austria as a cultured nation, yet, does not endow this image with any redemptive power. The legacy of its brutal exclusion and persecution of Jews remains part of the nation's identity, even if one recognizes that inhuman behavior has been and continues to be rampant in other nations.

Comments on the criticism made by Michaela and Mark Haberlein to an article appearing in the 2000 issue of `The Hispanic American Historical Review' which talks about the captivity of Hans Staden among Tupi Indians in Brazil. Wrong impression made by the Haberleins on the interpretation of the Staden biography; Defense on the publication history of the accounts indicated in the article; Correction on the supposed aversion from the works of Annerose Menninger on the subject.

Comments on an article correcting the view that Ralph Hawtrey's employment of general equilibrium analysis is a precursor of the multiplier argument that Richard Kahn and John Maynard Keynes founded on the principle of the marginal propensity to consume. Hawtrey's analytical contributions; Hawtrey's work as a multiplier pioneer; Link of Hawtrey to Keynesian exercises.

Focuses on the ideas of economist Milton Friedman on quality theory. Identification of money-demand model as a restatement of the quality theory; Model as an outgrowth of the Chicago oral tradition; Work on business cycles; Allegiance to Marshallian methodology and value theory.

Focuses on the criticisms of the use of hypothetical discourse in the book 'The Golden Bowl' by Henry James. Concept of hypothetical discourse; Metaphor of the paper image and the shadow; Complex device of hypothetical discourse.

Presents a critical analysis of the written works of Gustave Flaubert and Henry James and the application of ambiguity and undecidability in their literature. Operation of the types of ambiguity; Interpretation of some lines in their papers; Themes of their works.

Presents a paper on contemporary postmodern criticism, in the 1980s. Significance of critic Harold Bloom's antithetical conception of influence in critical theory; Discussion on the role of critic; Thesis of the author on the romance of criticism; Breach between theory and practice in the field of literacy criticism in the 1960s-1970s.

Presents a paper on the paths followed by critics Jacques Derrida and Michael Focault in the field of criticism. Comparison between the styles of Derrida and Focault in terms of their methods of criticism and analysis; Criticism of Derrida by Focault for being historical; Impact of their theoretical positions on the political positions of Focault and Derrida.

Focuses on W. Wolfgang Holdheim's criticism of the paper 'Abstraction and Empathy,' by Wilhelm Worringer. Direction of modernist and new critical impulse against positivistic determinism and materialistic naturalism; Views of Holdheim regarding Worringer's concept of abstraction.

Presents a criticism of the paper 'The Demiurgic Imagination in Art and Experience,' by Stephen Crites. Meaning of the word 'demiurge'; Identification of rise and fall of a social class with founders and name-givers of a culture by the writer; Criticism of the writer's view of creative imagination.

Introduces a panel discussion on the present and future states of novel criticism and theory discussed in the Volume 18, Number 3, Spring 1985 issue of "Novel."

The article talks about the harmless exhortation in moral matters with superior version of the idiom. Topics discussed include how to avoid self-flattering sanctimoniousness; speech act of criticizing others for wrongs that have committed itself morally objectionable; and dwells on the minor peccadilloes, moral failings, and priggish moralism.